Exactly this. With enough practice, you can overcome OP by just being better than your opponent. Obviously this isn't possible at the highest of levels because you are never going to be able to outplay your opponent of equal skill if there is an overpowered element to it.

Regardless, the casuals don't get it. They just cry that something broken because they lost to it once and can't fathom the idea that the opponent just MIGHT be better than you and has nothing to do with the strat/champ involved. Hope all multiplayer developers understand this one day.

Exactly, and proxies and various rushes SHOULDN'T be nerfed. A low level player can learn how to beat it, just like everyone above them. My issue is with companies outside of Starcraft actually would nerf it, completely fucking up the competitive scene in the process. It's that ignorance of the competitive meta that is usually the downfall.

In Starcraft, near every unit is an integral part of the faction for some situation or another

This actually isn't true. There are a handful of units that dominate low leagues that just AREN'T used in higher leagues. Such as Carriers. There are also building/unit upgrades that are irrelevant for 99% of the games.

Just like LoL having a 16-18 champ meta at any given time, Starcraft can have a meta revolving around openings and timings. Such as hellion openings against Zerg. It was pretty much 100% standard for months. They nerfed it to make other openings viable. They didn't nerf Hellions because in Gold league they were hard to deal with. They balanced it for the Grandmaster players. Thats how every company should balance their games. Balance it for the highest of skill levels, and let it trickle down.

Thats fine. He's allowed to be frustrated and annoyed. Taking it out on your fans? Not cool. Its unprofessional. He needs to keep that stuff to himself. He overreacts in the moment but in a week no one is going to give a shit about them forfeiting a tournament. In fact, a vocal minority give a shit. Most of Dyrus fans don't care. Regardless, it looks pathetic seeing him respond to his haters in such a way. Haters gon hate. No reason for him to freak the fuck out.

It's actually not. Just because he only took a part of the entire post, doesn't make it out of context. Even reading the entire post, he still comes off as a egotistical jackass. Who tells their fans, the reason he gets paid to play LoL, "Get off my dick."

Do you realize that context doesn't matter at that point? Its unprofessional and immature.

So that gives him an excuse to act like an asshole to his fans? He could of just left it at "I made a mistake, I'm sorry." but hes a child and says way too many irrelevant hateful things to his fans and feels justified because he sees himself above us.

Balancing a game for the majority of players makes sense from a developer perspective but is the wrong way to go. Starcraft is a great game and is balanced for the top 1% of players. There are strategies that feel overpowered in low leagues, but are really not. It's always smarter to balance to the best players and let it trickle down. I hope Riot understands this.

I interned for MLG back in 2010 and everyone made fun of competitive Call of Duty because the developers didn't give a shit about the competitive community and balanced their game for the majority/casuals resulting in MLG having to take settings into their own hands to make the game competitive and ban literally 50% of the Guns/Perks etc.

Games that balance for the casual/low skill players usually don't give a shit about the competitive community, which makes me believe Riot won't do that as they have shown that they do care.

I live in Vegas and have seen your show twice. You are amazing. I also was a huge fan of yours growing up. I still have VHS tapes of some of your shows that were on TV. I have been following stage Magic ever since.

My favorite illusion of yours is the Graffiti Wall, because even in this day and age of the internet... I still have no idea how you do that. That mystery is what makes these illusions (and you) so amazing and memorable.

Anyways, my questions are:

What was the most expensive illusion you ever put on? I have heard that some of your props can be rather expensive.

Was there ever a trick that you worked on for a long time, but could never get it to come out the way you wanted and was forced to scrap the idea?

Yeah I'm aware. That isn't reason to neglect a champion though. Sometimes it's not banned and it can be good to know how to play it. Also, metas change all the time. I hope Riot gives him a slight nerf, I actually quite enjoy playing/watching Shaco.

Yeah you can plant 4 Jack in the Box by the time blue spawns. As soon as blue spawns it triggers the Jack in the Box and they fear/dps/tank Blue while you hit Blue in the back (and do extra dmg because of Shaco's passive). Very easy lvl 1 jungler.

I've been jungling since lvl 1 and you are right. There are a lot of champions that are really only viable post lvl 20.

I would have to say the easiest jungler for me was Shaco. Being able to put down 4 Jack in the Box on Blue before it spawns allows you to kill blue without using Smite or taking any damage at all. Also he has a very good dodge rate against monster (because of his E). He doesn't have an AOE so he isnt the fastest, but one of the easiest to learn jungling imo.